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Structural Design

Structural design engineers help architects and owners realize their vision by developing creative solutions that fit within the aesthetic goals. While designing for safety and code compliance, the engineer also brings value to the design team by balancing costs and efficiency. SGH brings together expertise in design, investigation, and rehabilitation to deliver solutions that meet these challenges.

APPROACH

SGH’s approach to structural design enables us to achieve complex functional and architectural imperatives within real-world constraints. We work as an integrated part of the design team solving problems and focusing on details and coordination. Our experience and understanding of structural systems, the availability of our in-house laboratory and material experts, and our use ofthe latest technology in analysis and modeling, allows SGH to bring solutions to any design challenge.

We deliver a comprehensive set of structural engineering services, including:

After loss of power and reactor cooling capability at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant due to an extreme seismic event, the U.S. nuclear energy industry developed a diverse, flexible approach to implement the lessons learned, called FLEX...

Designing a structure to reduce the likelihood of disproportionate collapse requires an understanding of structural and material behavior and the expected response of that particular structure to the loss of a selected portion of the vertical...

A new deconstructable composite floor system, which consists of precast concrete planks and deconstructable clamping connections, is proposed to promote sustainable design of composite flooring systems in steel buildings and reuse of the...

The Integrated Design Building (IDB) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will be the first, large-scale, mass timber building in the Northeastern U.S. when completed. At four stories and 87,000 sf, the building will provide offices,...

A new deconstructable composite floor system consisting of precast concrete planks and deconstructable clamping connections is proposed to promote sustainable design of composite floor systems within steel buildings through comprehensive reuse of all key structural components.

This paper presents experimental and numerical studies of a full-scale deformable connection used to connect the floor system of the flexible gravity load resisting system to the stiff lateral force resisting system (LFRS) of an earthquake-...

Design and analysis of moorings of tanker vessels have traditionally been approached from two sides: from the vessel side, regulated by classification societies and with proposed guidelines from OCIMF, and from the land side, regulated by local codes and standards.

For integral abutment bridge (IAB) design, there is no consensus on the preferable orientation of the piles supporting the abutment, although variations can affect overall bridge behavior and forces in the piles. This paper details a parametric...

Concentrically braced frames (CBFs) have been used for seismic-lateral-force resisting systems for many years, but prior to approximately 1988, they were not designed to promote ductile response using capacity-based design.